From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Delays for implementations of Fortran features Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:03:16 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 0Pcux14FuO573J/+yVq1JA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18221 Date: 2014-01-19T07:03:16-06:00 List-Id: On 1/19/2014 5:54 AM, Marius Amado-Alves wrote: > But, there seems to be an important difference between the two >open source communities: GNAT is quickly maintained w.r.t. to the >language revision, whereas GFORTRAN is not (as reported above). > May be that is because the new Fortran standard now has in it everything but the kitchen sink? Modern Fortran has become more complicated than C++, and one has to feel sorry for the compiler engineers working on gfortran trying to catch up with all those new "modern" features being added to Fortran every few years. In the good old days, a computer language was simple and could be learned in few days from cover to cover. Now it takes years and one still can't learn everything in it. --Nasser